Parmenides · Philosophy
Parmenides’ rigorous deduction of the properties Being must have - ungenerated, imperishable, whole, one, continuous, unmoved, and complete ‘like a well-rounded sphere’ - the first systematic attempt to derive the nature of reality by pure logic from a single premise.
You learned that Parmenides deduced, by pure logic from the impossibility of not-being, that Being must be ungenerated, imperishable, whole, one, continuous, unmoved, and complete - ‘like the mass of a well-rounded sphere.’ Explain the signs of Being and how he derived them in your own words.
Leads to Spinoza.
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